Morgan City Floodwalls

Morgan City and its neighbor Berwick live in a bowl. Both are enclosed by ring levees and floodwalls, which makes them the largest Louisiana population center outside greater New Orleans to sit that way. The towns grew at the docks of Brashear and Berwick cities, where sugar, timber and seafood moved through and an 1891 traveler found fish being shipped west and bird plumes and shells traded from the bay. The walls came much later, around towns already built.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wedell-Williams Aviation and Cypress Sawmill Museum — 5.2 mi
  A Louisiana State Museum in Patterson on the world's largest cypress sawmill town and the Wedell-Williams racing planes, with a theater and changing exhibits.
• Grevemberg House Museum — 19 mi
  Franklin's 1851 Greek Revival townhouse, the official St. Mary Parish museum, saved from demolition by one vote and set in the Franklin Historic District on Bayou Teche.
• E. D. White Historic Site — 20 mi
  A National Historic Landmark house of about 1790 on Bayou Lafourche, built by enslaved people and home to two Whites, a governor and a Chief Justice, with an exhibit on the bayou's history.
• Chitimacha Museum — 23 mi
  The Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana's own museum at Charenton: the tribe's account of its territory, the French wars and enslavement, the land held in trust, and river cane baskets.

More markers nearby

• Charles Morgan — steps away
• Civil War Years — 0.3 mi
• Atchafalaya River — 0.3 mi
• Southwest Reef Lighthouse — 0.4 mi